Mohamed Elghannam, Art Director

Mohamed Elghannam

Art Director

ETICACOMMS

Location
Egypt - Cairo
Education
Bachelor's degree, Graphics Printed Design
Experience
16 years, 7 Months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :16 years, 7 Months

Art Director at ETICACOMMS
  • United Arab Emirates - Dubai
  • My current job since December 2016

Specialized in Branding, Logos, Creative collaterals (Corporate brochure, Leaflets, Banners, Ads, Creative Layouts, Magazines Layouts, Social Media Creative, Newsletter and Emailer, Web Interfaces, UI Interfaces. Good sense of image and font selection, High image retouching skill. Preparing product presentation, gift items, other marketing materials.

• Take overall responsibility for all on and offline work produced for all clients.
• managing all designs assignments, ensuring all work is produced on time.
• Hold monthly and quarterly design review meetings with clients to ensure they are satisfied with the work produced.
• Ensure all design work produced is on-brand and meets the client brand guidelines
• Liaise with other members of the graphic design team to maximize creativity and excellence in performance and delivery.
• Have good knowledge of corporate branding, digital media.
• Create new and original designs from scratch for brands based on client specification, needs and brand image
• Work with creative director and account managers, business development teams to create design
and branding material for client pitches

Website Designer at ETICACOMMS
  • United Arab Emirates - Dubai
  • June 2015 to August 2018

Having experience with web design and web development for more than 2 years. I am working as a freelance web designer, my power is in designing beautiful, modern and clean website designs, themes and templates for various websites.

• Designing webpage layout
• Determining technical requirements
• Updating websites with Wordpress

Senior Graphic Designer at ETICACOMMS
  • United Arab Emirates - Dubai
  • May 2015 to December 2016

Essential Job:

• Support the design and production of digital assets including online/mobile graphics,
emails, static banner ads
• Deliver assets on deadline and communicate any issues far in advance to allow for
problem-solving without causing fire-drills
• Develop and execute creative concepts and designs that meet brand guidelines. Update
brand guidelines as they evolve.
• Design and illustrate emails, page layouts, logos, and program assets across multiple
touchpoints (print and digital)
• Create digital mock-ups and presentations as part of the ETICACOMMS team and
effectively communicate with all stakeholders.
• Build look books, event promotional materials, media kits, packaging inserts, etc to
enhance the customer journey and support PR needs.
• Working knowledge of print and digital production and optimizing final files for delivery
• Manage creative workflow and act as a liaison to the merchandising creative team. Build
collaborative cross-department relationships that support the bottom line - increasing
eCommerce sales

Digital Graphic Designer at Idealsoft Emirates L.L.C
  • United Arab Emirates - Dubai
  • March 2015 to May 2015

iSoft Group Limited (Dubai, UAE)
Digital Media Designer at Dubai RTA

• Using latest web technologies such as Dreamweaver, Bootstrap, HTML5 and CSS
Maintains control of the design process to ensure manageable workload and management
of team expectations
• Delivers high-quality creative work which is on brief and within deadline
• Communicates project status at regular points, identifies roadblocks and flags them to key
team members, and proactively comes up with problem solving solutions

Digital Media Designer at MES Cairo
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • October 2013 to March 2015

• Developing design briefs by gathering information and data through research.
• Thinking creatively to produce new ideas and concepts
• Excellent design capabilities over a wide range of digital YouTube channels, including websites
• Using innovation to redefine a design brief within the constraints of cost and time.
• Particularly design programs such as Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop on Macintosh
platform, and 3D Max.
• Proficiency in designing/animating After Effects
• Working on layouts and art working for the preparation
• Ability to work to specification and tight deadlines.
• Experience working as a motion graphics designer preferably in a broadcasting environment. and
implementation of slideshows and web based
• programs for the regular school ceremonies and events.

Senior Graphic Designer / 3D Visualiser at spark animation studio
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • June 2010 to December 2013

• 3D Rendering animation
• 3D Character (Rigging+Modeling) Background designing
• Understanding of After Effects and industry standard plug-ins.
• knowledge of Adobe CS6 & CC collections, including Photoshop and Illustrator.
• 3D experience, particularly in Cinema 4D & 3D Studio MAX.
• A good grasp of post-production processes and services for broadcast.
• A good working knowledge of Mac OSX, PC and digital workflows.
• I have excellent customer service skills and am able to communicate at all levels.
• Particularly design programs such as Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop on Macintosh
• Proficiency in designing/animating After Effects
• Working on layouts and art working for the preparation
• Ability to work to specification and tight deadlines

creative graphic designer at Colourvision Technologies (Pty) Ltd
  • South Africa
  • November 2011 to March 2012

IT retail solution for comp solution
• Designed and produced marketing collateral for new advertisements, fliers, postcards, and
brochures.
• Experienced in the Front end and back end
• Create cross-browser, Mobiles and cross-platform compatible solutions
• Build landing pages, HTML emails
• Word-press, HTML, Java
• Build digital assets (banners, animation videos)
• Design online and offline campaigns (magazines, social media, and Google Ad Words,
Banners)
• Develop graphics for product illustrations & land websites.

3D Instructor and Graphics Designer at IT school smart solution
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • March 2011 to June 2011

1.Great eye for motion, design, typography, composition and color theory
2.Compfortable with 3ds Max
3.Familiar with Global Illumination rendering (Mental Ray or Vray... etc)
4.Compositing in After Effects (familiar with multi-pass rendering).
5.Photoshop and Illustrator
6.Video editing is a plus

3D Graphic Design Instructor at C.G Campain
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • October 2009 to April 2010

C.G CAMPAIGN

• Teaching an intermediate 3D Animation course using Autodesk and Maya
• Consult with students during scheduled office and lab hours
• Maintain expertise in current technologies and techniques
• Understand the commercial and business side of 3D Animation, Modeling an
Storyboarding including contracting and working as part of a larger team
• Desirable Skills and Attributes
• Experience with all the aspects of the 3D production process including modeling, texturing,
lighting, animating and rendering.

3D/2D Animation included Story board, layout, and Background designing at Agiad Cartoon House
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • August 2007 to September 2009

Agiad Cartoon House.
http://agiadstudio.com

• 3D/2D Modeling, animation included Story board and layout,
• Understand project requirements and adhere to client specifications.
• Adhere to aesthetic design style guides, procedures, systems and templates.
• Create sale signs with strong concepts and designs.
• Use processes, tools and control systems to deliver projects on time.
• Coordinate and discuss creative aspects with other team members working on the project.
• Meet deadlines while executing designing projects.
• Perform other duties as assigned

Education

Bachelor's degree, Graphics Printed Design
  • at Helwan University
  • May 2010

Graphic Department is a department major college Since it depends on the preparation of graduate talent is characterized by technical and graphic design capacity distinguished by the academic programs of study »Undergraduate». As well as deepening specialization at the postgraduate level through research projects and technical.

Diploma, SAT
  • at www.collegeboard.org
  • June 2005

College Board is a private company in the United States that was formed in 1900 as the College Entrance Examination Board. The membership association includes more than 6,000 schools, colleges, universities and other educational organizations

High school or equivalent, CAMBRIDGE INTERNATIONAL EXAMINATIONS IGCSE
  • at www.bicollege.co.za
  • November 2002

They offer superb tuition towards internationally recognized Cambridge qualifications. Through the 'University of Cambridge International Examinations, they offer students a complete set of qualifications via our A Level, AS level, IGCSE and Foundation courses in order to obtain a school leaving certificate that is recognized by prestigious universities throughout the world.

High school or equivalent, Independent Examinations Board IEB
  • at www.stalbanscollege.com
  • December 2001

St Alban's College is a private boarding school/day school for boys situated in the suburb of Lynnwood Glen in Pretoria, Gauteng, South Africa. It was founded in 1963 by Anton Murray.

Specialties & Skills

3D Studio Max
Digital Art
Graphic Arts
Graphics
Adobe Photoshop CC
Adobe Illustrator
Adobe Soundbooth CC
Adobe after Effects
MS Office
3Ds Max 2014
Creative Skills
Typography
Advertising
2D graphics
Microsoft PowerPoint
Design Thinking
High Level Of Accuracy
Creative Problem Solving
Digital Production
Analytical Skills
Social Media
Art Direction

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Languages

Arabic
Expert
English
Expert

Memberships

Egyptian plastic artists syndicate
  • Member
  • November 2010

Hobbies

  • Watercolor illustrations
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